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Яeverse
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Hopefully Shaman King Flowers moves over to say Young Jump, even if it would be monthly in there (believe it has some series with irregular releases in its lineup anyway).
87 Clockers and Flowers were two of its more popular series. |
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ChibiGoku
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I see Flowers moving more so to Jump Square, honestly. It's still targeted towards the boys demographic, so I don't see the shift to Young Jump happening. |
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configspace
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It should be noted that those are Seinen mags.
The explanation is very vague... but it seems like business was bad enough to shut down/suspend Jump X fairly soon. It's not surprising they'd focus on Young Jump, as that's where all the action is at (Gantz, Brynhildr, etc)
has a poll asking if they read Jump X/Kai: 167 monthly 348 occasionally 1837 has never read it |
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Яeverse
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Jump X and Young Jump targetted essentially the same older group in the latest demographics for Shueisha magazines, which is also probably why the JPN article mentioned Young Jump as well. |
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ChibiGoku
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Ah! My mistake then. EDIT: Huh, surprised Jump Square is targeted older. I just thought it was basically a monthly edition to Shonen Jump with the same demographic. |
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The Mad Manga Massacre
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I have a question. What impact will this "change of environment surrounding manga for youth" have on seinen and josei manga and on the industry as a whole?
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Яeverse
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I thought that was just a fancy way of saying that the magazine was unpopular. The circulation dropped from 34K to 18K in one years time... |
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The Mad Manga Massacre
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Then why "Shueisha will focus on creating new manga for youth in its other magazine Weekly Young Jump."? |
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Яeverse
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Because Young Jump has more popular series and better circulation numbers. Just compare Jump X circulation of 18000 to Young Jumps Circulation of >600000, and it seems clear why they would focus on creating new manga in the more popular magazine. |
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The Mad Manga Massacre
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Ohhhhh! Okay. I thought it meant that Weekly Young Jump would start aiming for a younger audience than it currently is. |
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Kadmos1
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Other than the fans that enjoyed this magazine and as long as the manga can continue in other magazines, I don't think there should be an issue.
I wonder how Shueisha plans to make YJ more kid friendly besides canceling or moving certain titles to other magazines. Upon looking at the titles listed in YJ's ANN Encyclopedia entry, I think that wanting to have youth manga in YJ is going to be a quite a stretch in that YJ has/had manga noted for having mature content, therefore, YJS doesn't seem like the place to have youthful titles to be in. Last edited by Kadmos1 on Tue Jun 24, 2014 2:28 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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#814635
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I hope 87 Clockers finds a new home! Currently loving it
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ReNellGlover
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There was a Jump X?
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residentgrigo
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They just overstretched and 87 Clockers will survive. It should just go to a Josei magazine if you as me. The Ultra Jump numbers aren´t a compete write off but i expected better. It got beat by GJ. Is it their softcore porn series or Tsubasa that sell ? I wonder.
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configspace
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No, Jump Square is still the same shounen demographic (there's Blue Exorcist for example) but Jump X and Young Jump are not
I think you're conflating "youth" with kids. In fact publications with the word "Young" are almost always Seinen mags. By youth, think young adults like highschoolers and above. Also be aware that Anglo notions of mature don't really apply in determining demographic targets, as there are plenty of shounen titles that defy such categorization. What I would think they mean by targeting youth in their Seinen mags are titles that excite them instead of more mundane or slow moving stories. |
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